Uploaded May 2015 | Updated September 2026, 33 minutes ago
LYRICS:
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you you can't see
If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind the drug stores sell
When you reach the part
Where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take
I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three-way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love let's be real
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You'll know that I'm just trying to understand
The feelings that we lack
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back
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#notautotuned #notpitchcorrected
Words & Music by Gordon Lightfoot. My rendition of the Gordon Lightfoot classic, "If You Could Read My Mind."
LYRICS:
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you you can't see
If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind the drug stores sell
When you reach the part
Where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take
I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three-way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love let's be real
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You'll know that I'm just trying to understand
The feelings that we lack
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back
________________________________________________________________________
#notautotuned #notpitchcorrected
Words & Music by Gordon Lightfoot. My rendition of the Gordon Lightfoot classic, "If You Could Read My Mind."
